Nearly six months after massive wildfires close to Canadas oil sands forced one of the largest evacuations in the countrys history, affecting production, Leonardo DiCaprios new climate-change documentary threatens to bring unwanted, negative attention to the industry.

Critics are already referring to the scenes shown in the film, particularly an aerial of the oil sands, as terrifying.

Fisher Stevens, director of Before The Flood, which has been in the works since 2014, recently told Canadian Press he was "really horrified" by how the landscape looked in north-eastern Alberta.

I don’t know about terrifying unless we are talking about investors. Oil sands oil extraction is terribly expensive and not profitable at current oil prices. In addition the EROEI is not sustainable in the long run were we to have to rely to this means to obtain energy.

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